4/8 There's no man with a braver heart.' I wonder how the beautiful Greek behaved? Was she fainting or in hysterics, or so overcome by terror as to be unconscious ?' 'I'll make you any wager you like, Kate did the whole thing herself. There was a Whiteboy attack to force the stairs when she was a child, and I suppose we rehearsed that combat fully fifty--ay, five hundred times. Kate always took the defence, and though we were sometimes four to one, she kept us back.' 'By Jove! I think I should be afraid of such a young lady.' 'So you would. She has more pluck in her heart than half that blessed province you come from. |